The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s5.234

c10.s5.234

Wu-ti was interested when he heard of them, as he had found an oracle in the Book of Changes which said that ‘the heavenly horse will come from the North-West’¹—indeed it appears that an apparition of the creature had recently been recorded²—and when Chang-k’ien, on his second journey westward in 115, brought back some horses from the Wu-sun³ which were stronger than any known in China, Wu-ti thought that these were the horses he had heard of, descendants of the ‘heavenly horse’, and named them ‘heavenly horses’.⁴